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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.
Published: 01 September 2020
... as they translated and commented on Indigenous languages: these translation projects range from seventeenth-century assessments of Indigenous languages as possessing aesthetic and spiritual value to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century classifications of those languages as archeological and archival resources. The arc...
View articletitled, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span> Century
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The Raven and the Sea: The Lost Intertidal World of Eighteenth-Century Ornithology
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American Literature 11792427.
Published: 07 March 2025
... on bare patches of land. This article argues that eighteenth-century ornithology inherits this biblical bias against the raven, confining natural historical depictions of the bird to a terrestrial plane to demarcate unregenerative nature. When read in relation to the oral literature of the Indigenous...
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Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America; Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 637–639.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Susan Kurjiaka By Susan M. Stabile. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. xiii, 284 pp.$34.95. By Janet Gray. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. viii, 324 pp.$44.95. 2005 Book Reviews
Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century
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View articletitled, Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-Century America; Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity
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The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 847–849.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Ed White 2005 The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity . By Ralph Bauer. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 295 pp. $65.00; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Philip Gould...
View articletitled, The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-Century Atlantic World
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 618–621.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... $65.00. The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture . By George Boulukos. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 280 pp. $95.00. The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro . By Mark Whalan. Gainesville: Univ. Press...
View articletitled, Dark Victorians; Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World; The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-Century British and American Culture; The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro
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for article titled, Dark Victorians; Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World; The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-Century British and American Culture; The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Joanna Brooks This essay challenges the image, popularized by Henry Louis Gates Jr., of eighteenth-century African American poet Phillis Wheatley “on trial” before a jury of eighteen white male judges. Brooks argues that there was no trial and that Wheatley instead made her career by cultivating...
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Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Madeline Zehnder Abstract This essay attends to the presence of a small portrait carried by an enslaved character, Georges, in Victor Séjour’s 1837 sketch “Le Mulâtre” (“The Mulatto”). While most eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction deploys miniature portraits to mediate social ties...
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Hymnic Placemaking: Samson Occom’s Collection and Brothertown Orientations
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 607–638.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Bradley Dubos Abstract This article traces a long trajectory of hymnic placemaking within the Brothertown Indian Nation from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Since their tribe’s inception, Brothertown people have repurposed the forms and rituals of Christian hymnody in order...
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The Character Sketch, the Aesthetics of Representativeness, and Rip Van Winkle’s Electoral Double Vision
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Leila Mansouri Abstract This essay examines how a literary genre called the character sketch shaped the ways Americans came to understand electoral representation as representative. Now little known but central to eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century literary culture in the US and Britain...
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Edgar Huntly and the Regulation of the Senses
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
... privileged access to knowledge, just as Clithero does in Edgar Huntly . By treating somnambulists as knowing figures, Brown’s novel, and animal magnetism itself, transvalued an eighteenth-century sensory pathology: insensibility. In a period when the ability to produce public knowledge and even to claim...
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Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 595–622.
Published: 01 December 2022
... reading reveals the network of historically inflected obligations that can produce or intensify the expectation that reading should be pleasurable. This insight comes to view in the writing and reading practices of Samson Occom, late eighteenth-century Mohegan minister, theologian, and hymnodist...
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Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in narrative and law. It examines how land’s agency appears in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Mason Land Case. It does so first from a colonial perspective, where land is inert property and Native peoples are unable to comprehend land as such, then from a Mohegan perspective, where land is a societal...
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Witnessing Otherwise in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition
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American Literature 11792419.
Published: 07 March 2025
... as refusals that contribute just as meaningfully to the Narrative ’s creation as what Stedman claims to witness, this article complicates a pluralistic approach to scholarship about eighteenth-century knowledge. Instead, it uses the lack of answers from Indigenous communities to provide a case study in how...
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What’s in a Name? Vincent Ogé, Toussaint Louverture, and George Boyer Vashon’s Revision of the Haitian Revolution
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 237–262.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Nathaniel A. Windon Abstract This essay argues that George Boyer Vashon’s epic poem, “Vincent Ogé” (1854), reframes the Haitian Revolution by aligning two moments of imminent revolution—Saint-Domingue in the late eighteenth century and the United States in the mid-nineteenth century—to suggest...
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The Novelist as Organic Intellectual: William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy , Reconsidered
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 695–721.
Published: 01 December 2016
...David Lawrimore Abstract Scholars of material and print culture have recently challenged the theory of an early American public sphere, arguing that the literary landscape of eighteenth-century America was composed instead of fragmented publics, local networks frequently partisan in nature...
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Strange Beauty: The Politics of Ungenre in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 523–549.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and exceptional account. At least since the eighteenth century rise in aesthetic philosophy (and arguments could be made farther back than this), the relationship between the aesthetic and the political sphere, however each of these was defined, was a fairly conventional and even assumed one. Rebecca Harding...
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“Be Cautious of the Word `Rebel'”: Race, Revolution, and Transnational History in Martin Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 153–179.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Revolutionary time and space. By the time of the novel's abrupt ending, Delany had developed a hemispheric context for black liberation that cannot be traced back to the eighteenth-century corruptions of American republicanism. Finally, Doolen makes a case for Blake 's literary complexity by emphasizing...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 461.
Published: 01 June 2000
..., awarded biennially to the author of a scholarly, book-length
manuscript in eighteenth-century studies in history, literature, philosophy, or
the arts. The $4,000 award and publication of the manuscript by the University...
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Bodies in Labor: Sole Proprietorship and the Labor of Conduct in The Coquette
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 315–344.
Published: 01 June 2002
... the eighteenth century
must be read in relation to emerging republican theories of natural
rights, which asserted that all ‘‘men’’ are by ‘‘nature’’ equal.3 Schie-
binger points to the striking ways in which race, gender, and eco-
nomic inequalities emerging within the framework of Enlightenment
thought...
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Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 395–397.
Published: 01 June 2016
... the emerging discipline of media studies to revisit and rethink canonical texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Print Technology in Scotland and America and The Camera and the Press are both solid efforts in this direction, as they draw on recent scholarship on media and mediation to explore...
View articletitled, Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype
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